Help I need an image for my Series 1 Phillips HDR112 that has lifetime. got the GSOD and ive been searing forums for days, had an old PM from stan from 2004 when I upgraded the drive lol but the link doesnt work anymore. Can anyone help? Thanks so much!!

Help I need an image for my Series 1 Phillips HDR112 that has lifetime. got the GSOD and ive been searing forums for days, had an old PM from stan from 2004 when I upgraded the drive lol but the link doesnt work anymore. Can anyone help? Thanks so much!!

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You need to test the drive with the manufacturer's own diagnostic software long test.

This can probably be found (along with lots of other stuff) on the Ultimate Boot CD.

and go down to the bottom of the page to the list of mirror sites and right-click on one of the icons just left of one of the mirror site names and chose "Save link as" or whatever the IE or Chrome equivalent is to download the .iso file which you can burn to a cd as an image to get a bootable cd.

Once you've established that you've got a drive worth using (or gotten another drive), here is what I think is the smallest footprint image available for the S1, and it should be kernel patched for drives over 137GB in size.

Help I need an image for my Series 1 Phillips HDR112 that has lifetime. got the GSOD and ive been searing forums for days, had an old PM from stan from 2004 when I upgraded the drive lol but the link doesnt work anymore. Can anyone help? Thanks so much!!

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And one other thing.

Series 1s are very persnickety about which hard drives they will or won't work with in which configuration.

Stuff that works fine in an S2 might just sit there and refuse to boot on an S1.

If you need a new drive, it may be easier, or at least cheaper, to find a SATA drive instead of an IDE, and going with a SATA drive or 2 will let you hit the limit of 1TB per drive.

Series 1s have to use a Marvell chipset based SATA/IDE adapter, regardless of which brand or model SATA drive.

(if it's an IDE drive then it doesn't matter which chipset is on the adapter you won't be needing in the first place. )

They can't use a Western Digital Caviar Blue drive, either IDE or SATA.

Don't know why, just know they can't (or won't)

And if you want to do a 2 drive setup, even IDE, and have 2 identical Seagates, that may not work, although one of the Seagates may work just fine and even work with some other brand as the other drive.

I think a Caviar Black or a Caviar Green will work, but if using a Caviar Green, familiarize yourself with the Intellipark soft boot problem and how to use wdidle3.exe (also available on the UBCD) to disable it.

I thought I would give a quick update on my scenario; after replacing my bad hard drive, I was still having issues. Tried a couple different images and only had success once. Long story short, I had a bad SATA cable. After taking a dremel to the adapter to separate the power to the drive, I was able to replace the SATA cable and was back to being fully functional.

I thought I would give a quick update on my scenario; after replacing my bad hard drive, I was still having issues. Tried a couple different images and only had success once. Long story short, I had a bad SATA cable. After taking a dremel to the adapter to separate the power to the drive, I was able to replace the SATA cable and was back to being fully functional.

How about a blast from the past. I need an image for the Toshiba RS-TX60. I thought I had one, but the source disc must be damaged, because I cannot get a clean backup image from it. The TiVo boots with the image, but won't let me make a backup.

I know an image from a RS-TX20 will work, but I want a real TX60 image, so it will say "RS-TX60" in the system info page.

I mostly use WinMFS, but I can use a mstools backup, too.

I anyone is selling their old TX60 or would like to "get rid of" one, send me a PM. Maybe we can work out a deal.

Thankx,

robomeister

P.S. If anyone needs an image for any of other Series 2 TiVos, I have most of them. Let me know.